Nelumbo

Ne`lum´bo

prop. n.

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(Bot.) A genus of great water lilies. The North American species is Nelumbo lutea, the Asiatic is the sacred lotus, Nelumbo speciosa.

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Noun

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Nelumbo - sometimes placed in the family Nymphaeaceae: lotuses genus Nelumbo magnoliid dicot genus - genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms Nelumbonaceae, subfamily Nelumbonaceae - in some classifications considered an independent family of water lilies; comprises the single genus Nelumbo American lotus, Nelumbo lutea, water chinquapin, yanquapin - water lily of eastern North America having pale yellow blossoms and edible globular nutlike seeds